Peck Slip School (former Peck Slip Post Office)
1 Peck Slip | Financial District | built 1950
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1950
The Peck Slip post office is built beside the East River fish-market district
A timeline compiled by Friends of Peck Slip Park dates the post office building to 1950, standing between Pearl and Water Streets. It went up while fish wholesalers still used the ground floors of the slip's older buildings, long after most shipping had moved to the Hudson. The elevated FDR Drive (1955) soon cut Peck Slip off visually from the river, and Southbridge Towers (1969) ended it as a through street.
Source: peckslipfriends.org
- 2012
The Peck Slip Post Office sells its last stamps and moves to John Street
The post office at 1 Peck Slip closed on June 1, 2012, after serving the neighborhood for over sixty years, and reopened three days later in a 3,000-square-foot space at 116 John Street. The Postal Service had been trying to sell the 70,800-square-foot building to save money, and the city stepped in as the buyer. Community Board 1 member Paul Hovitz had first proposed turning it into a school more than two years earlier.
Source: dnainfo.com
- 2015
The old post office opens as P.S. 343, the Peck Slip School
Principal Maggie Siena rang the bell on the first day in the converted building. Two floors had been added to the four-story post office, giving it a rooftop play area with views of Lower Manhattan, a fifth-floor gym and auditorium, and room to grow into a 712-seat elementary school. The school had spent about three years in temporary classrooms at Tweed Courthouse while the building was rebuilt.
Source: tribecatrib.com
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